PFHS presents melodrama
<p>Jack Logan, played by Alex Schwartzmeyer, and Nell Perkins, played by Christina Sedgwick, confront the menacing Hilton Hays, played by Nick Dorsey in the Post Falls High School production of the melodrama "He Ain't Done Right By Nell" opening Thursday night at 7pm.</p>
<p>The heroine of Post Falls High School's "He Ain't Done Right By Nell," Nell Perkins, played by Christina Sedgwick, is threatened by Hilton Hays, played by Nick Dorsey. The melodrama will open Thursday at 7pm.</p>
POST FALLS - Post Falls High drama students will revive the Wild West starting tonight.
Students will present a melodrama called "He Ain't Done Right by Nell" by Wilbur Braun at 7 tonight, Friday and Saturday at the school.
Cost is $5 per person and tickets are available at Super 1 Foods in Post Falls and Post Falls High School.
"We chose to do a melodrama because it has been 10 years since our last one," said Linda Fry, PFHS theatre director. "People should attend this family friendly, audience participation comedy where they can boo the villain and cheer for the hero as the villain's dastardly plot unfolds."
The comedy is described as an old-fashioned melodrama in one act.
In the play, Nell Perkins, played by student Christina Sedgwick, is the damsel in distress who lives in the hills with her grandma, Granny Perkins, who is played by Katie Schini.
When the villain, Hilton Hayes, played by Nick Dorsey, learns that Nell is an abandoned child and has no right to the Perkins name, he threatens to tell everyone when Nell refuses to respond to his advances.
Jack Logan, the hero played by Alex Schwartzmeyer, is committed to rescue Nell from the evil clutches of the villain and hopes to make her his bride to heal her broken heart.
Logan saves the day and Nell becomes his bride.
But, of course, Hayes gets his "just desserts" in the end.